Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from my dear old home you come, And all its glories you can name; Oh tell me-has the winter plum Yet blossomed o'er the window frame...
Strayed & Lost. Near San Francisco, five little lambs, their fleece dyed pink, blue, orange, green and yellow, returned to the farm after a stint in a city show window, found themselves coldly, completely snubbed by the rest of the flock- including the black sheep...
Inexperienced. In Los Angeles, a young miss, on a vacation from Seaside, Ore., as a reward for not smoking until her 21st birthday, threw a cigaret butt out of a bedroom window, started a brush fire...
Uptown, a mile away, the manager of the White House department store was blown through the post office door. The invisible force smashed the doors and windows of the First State Bank and scattered money all over the floor. It tossed Mrs. Tena Lide out through a second-story window, twisted the steel roof beams of the auditorium, puffed in the roof and a wall of the Jewel Theater, knocked out the gas, light and water systems and pancaked rows of houses...
...clientele is cosmopolitan-student wives, mostly from the graduate schools, secretaries, librarians, waitresses, and guests. Sometimes as many as 40 show up. Only once since ruddy-faced George Holly took over the information window in 1937 has a slipup interrupted the clock-like regularity of the Monday night class...